Willi
Krakau

Willi Krakau was born in Felgeleben on 4 December 1911. Before turning to motor racing he tried his hand at several sports, and he was a member of the German rowing team at the 1936 Summer Olympics.

In the late 1940s and early 1950s he became known as a builder of special racing cars, some of them based on the BMW 328. He enjoyed some success with them in a number of formulae, Formula Two among them. His only World Championship entry came at the 1952 German Grand Prix, where he drove a six-cylinder AFM. Krakau took part in qualifying but did not make the starting grid, so he never started a championship race. He died in Peine on 26 April 1995.

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